Bioware Employee caught reviewing Dragon Age 2

[Sonic Doctor]

My my my, more of this people can't have opinions stuff. This guy just can't have a opinion apparently, it has to be some big evil scheme by the company.

Now back in the world of reality, it is more likely that this guy is giving a review on how he feels about the game. It is his opinion. But people blow it way out of proportion since he works for BioWare. So what? Because he works for the company, he can't have an opinion of his own about the product he helped create? Why yes, yes he can have his own opinion.

In all seriousness, I agree with him. Dragon Age 2 is a vast improvement over Origins. It is my opinion.

Cue the people quoting me to tell me I'm wrong even though it is an opinion and doesn't enter the realm of right and wrong.

I haven't seen one thing that is a "fact" that makes DA2 a screw up that is worse than Origins. The thing is, there will never be such facts, because it is all in the realm of opinions.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

How? Even with the DLC I was only have to get most things up to the 80s with a few 100s and 90+. Looking back if I really dug into it and figured out how many there were of each book and maxed all perks right, and really figured it out. but can you really max out a charactor in New Vegas?

I spent time on using the "Trail and Error" system on half a dozen characters to figure out what I wanted to be "right" and "wrong". To answer your question about maxing out a characters skills and SPECIAL, no you can't but you can get all but four Skills maxed out. Its better that way. I remember just wasting hours of hours just walking across the Wasteland, using the Sniper Rifle from Operation Anchorage and killing anything in my way with one hit kills and getting all of my Action Points back instantly. Far to overpowered but in New Vegas your character is still pretty strong if you purchase enough 45-75 Gov'm rounds and a modded Brush Rifle.

Yeah I agree. Plus the Stealth Suit in Fallout 3 broke the game if used right. Silent Running + 100 Sneak + Stealth Suit + Infiltrator = broken game. Seriously you could shoot a guy, then crouch and laugh while he wonders where you went. You could even crawl up to Death Claws or listen to Super Mutants talk to each other. (They all talk like Forest Gump XD)

 

[A Weakgeek]

It is sad that nowdays the most trustworthy reviews are the ones made by amatures on websites who either have a second job or get by solely with the money they get from ads.

But as soon as they become popular and traffic goes high enough to be noticed, they get offers they can't resist (or refuse, who knows?), and we are back to the square one.

Well to me, It's easier to hope for a honest internet reviewer than a corporate one. So I will try and hang on the idea of honest reviews. But you are right, thats many times the case.

 

[Krantos]

I really think the reason DAII is getting so much bad press is that it is exactly the type of game Old BioWare fans were afraid the company was going to start making when EA bought the out. Mass Effect 2 came close, but it made enough progress in certain areas for fans to mostly forgive it. Also it was set in space.

But DA2? Oh, now the gloves are off. Bear in mind: DA2 is NOT a bad game. If it were made by almost any other developer I would say it was pretty good. It is however, the worst game BioWare has made in the past decade. Granted that's not saying much given the company's track record, but there it is.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I wouldn't say they're the only ones, but this does put the first signs of blemish on my vision of Bioware. They are no longer pristine in my eyes.

Who's left?.....


nothing but a barren wasteland....

sorrow.

You could just continue to enjoy their games despite Biowares faults. No developer is perfect after all.

The problem is everyone viewed Bioware as incapable of failure. Remember the better something is the more glaring it's flaws.

Which is why you should never put anyone on a pedestal. Everyone makes mistakes, every actor will deliver a bad performance, every musician will write a bad song and every developer will make a bad game. It?s normal and inevitable.

I bet you their next game will be fantastic. You learn more from your mistakes than you ever learn from success. So hears hoping DOA:3 makes all the fans happy like the first one did.

 

[Tomo Stryker]

Yeah I agree. Plus the Stealth Suit in Fallout 3 broke the game if used right. Silent Running + 100 Sneak + Stealth Suit + Infiltrator = broken game. Seriously you could shoot a guy, then crouch and laugh while he wonders where you went. You could even crawl up to Death Claws or listen to Super Mutants talk to each other. (They all talk like Forest Gump XD)

And I present to you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXZAOtSSRLE) Super Mutant Dialogue.

 

[Ice Car]

I'm a tad confused, I reread the article (and it's source) a couple times just to make sure I didn't miss anything blatantly obvious. But one guy who works at bioware, and is probably just angry about all the stupidity going on with DA2, decides to write his own counter review to the trolls and now suddenly it's this huge Bioware/EA conspiracy to dupe people into buying the game?

Was it stupid of him? Yes. Should he have done it? No. But I must be missing the connection point where big brother attempted to dupe us all into making uninformed choices.

People often look to reviews for opinions about the game so they can buy it. Sure, it's one person saying all negative reviews are false and the game is flawless, but some idiots are naive like that.

 

[Direwolf750]

I still plan to get it as soon as it comes out with all the dlc. probably nothing stelar, but i've heard okay thigns about it...aside from this thing, which is more than just a bit sketchy. Gotta think that someone who worked on the product is going to try and promote it however they can though. Dunno about this dude, but I can see it happening pretty easily.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Yeah I agree. Plus the Stealth Suit in Fallout 3 broke the game if used right. Silent Running + 100 Sneak + Stealth Suit + Infiltrator = broken game. Seriously you could shoot a guy, then crouch and laugh while he wonders where you went. You could even crawl up to Death Claws or listen to Super Mutants talk to each other. (They all talk like Forest Gump XD)

And I present to you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXZAOtSSRLE) Super Mutant Dialogue.

Ease dropping in Fallout 3 can be such a rewarding experience. XD

 

[Littlee300]

THERE IS NO BIOWARE. ONLY EA.

Bioware is just a name now, they died the moment EA bought them. Supporting them means you support EA and all their bullshit.

Not buying anything published by EA or Activision would leave you with roughly two games per year, unfortunately.

So much false...

 

[Tomo Stryker]

Yeah I agree. Plus the Stealth Suit in Fallout 3 broke the game if used right. Silent Running + 100 Sneak + Stealth Suit + Infiltrator = broken game. Seriously you could shoot a guy, then crouch and laugh while he wonders where you went. You could even crawl up to Death Claws or listen to Super Mutants talk to each other. (They all talk like Forest Gump XD)

And I present to you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXZAOtSSRLE) Super Mutant Dialogue.

Ease dropping in Fallout 3 can be such a rewarding experience. XD

Indeed.

OT: I really don't understand why people don't like DA2. I haven't got a chance to put a large amount of time into either Origins or DA2, but I know Bioware's formula. If you played KotOR I or II then you know how they make their RPGs. Despite that, no creator should be the judge of their own product, your already biased about your own creation.

 

[PerpetualGamer]

I am a RPG Gamer, I am a PC Elitest, To the extreme, consoles are inferior pieces of shit and 99.5% of games play better on the PC. That however doesn't stop me saying with a straight face that the combat on Xbox360 for DA2 was greatly improved from both DA:O(PC AND xbox360).

To Anyone who says that PC Elitests dont like the game you would be wrong, PC Elitests/RPG Gamers like DA:O because it is what we like, we don't like DA2 because its what we dont like. We are not trolling by definition.

In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

We simply don't like it, we are free to express our views, and when it comes to user reviews if 30-50% of them are negative to simply say "OMG TROLL" is easy. But that fact is that There are more people who dislike the game than like it. A troll is someone who would put a negative review regardless of liking or disliking it, just to piss people off. This doesn't USALLY apply outside of forums cause they dont get the immediate satisfaction of seeing the people lose it.

Bioware WAS great, Bioware still can be great, but the amount of time they have to be great is running out with every second they are under the EA thumb. Bioware has to follow "the boss", there is no way around it.

EA is to gaming, what Fox News is to Television. A Pile of garbage dressed as a professional organization. EA absorbs companies, dissolves them, makes money. They have proven this, so to think bioware will be different is folly and idealistic, I hope that Bioware can finish Mass Effect 3 and SW:TOR before they get turned into EA money food.

Do not call people with geniuine negative views trolls just because they are the majority. You don't see me calling people who hate PC Games trolls.

PS.

DA2 was a good game until you get back from the deep roads, I feel like the game just lost itself after that.

 

[Hisshiss]

I never got around to playing either, despite being a big RPG buff. For whatever reason I never took to them.

I have however logged almost 600 hours on a 20 dollar PSP game xD..Its sequel comes out in like 6 days, 27 bucks for another 600 hours. Booyah.

What game would this be? I don't think my amount of time spent playing Pokemon as a kid could even scratch the surface of that.

final fantasy dissidia, I picked it up on at midnight when it came out, pretty much played it exclusively as my psp title til...like now. Ive just recently lost interest almost entirely because the sequel is coming out in a few days.

Granted it wasnt 600 awesome hours, I just played out whenever I was out anywhere with my PSP and for a few marathons when I had no other games to play, it had that sort of decent appeal to always be semi-fun.

Reminds me of one of my friends, plays call of duty all frikkin day. I think he had like..24 days play time on modern warfare 2.

The demo for the sequel comes out/came out today . as in whenever they decide to put it up on the PSN since its only 2:30 right now. I have to go find a place with free internet to download it though, the security we put up on our router recently isnt compatible with my PSP, and im too much of a computer invalid to figure out how to fix that. /derp

 

[warprincenataku]

Hey, other than implemented a bit poorly, the idea was quite sound. Kudos to them. Heck, I'd do it if I was a developer. I'd have all my friends do it too.

 

[PerpetualGamer]

But that fact is that There are more people who dislike the game than like it.

The term "vocal minority" comes to mind, which makes your "fact" inconclusive.

I'm also a PC elitist (somewhat). I like Dragon Age 2. I like to think i'm not the exception that confirms the rule.

As for the OP: so Bioware has one fanboi working for them. BIG SHOCK!
Because of course, the voice of one employee in one amateur user review is the voice of the entire fucking company.

I'm obviously a retard, my mistake, I totally didn't mean for it to come out like that, I was trying to say that if it so happens that a game has more negative than positive reviews don't jump to "TROLLS". I need to learn how to convey my thoughts to words without emotion.